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The 198 Government-aided schools for natives had a total enrolment of 15,286, and received in 1911 grants in aid to the amount of 1^»773Z. ; and the 31 Government-aided schools for the children of Indians had a total enrolment of 3,089 in 1911, for which a grant of 3,866?. was expended.
Finance —Since the coming into effect of the Union there is only one financial statement for the four provinces together. Particulars are given above under the Union. The only provincial revenue at present is the amount voted by Parliament by way of subsidies for the performance of the services and duties assigned to the Provinces. The following tigures show the estimate of expenditure to be defrayed by the Natal Province during tlie year ending March 31, 1913, and a comparison with the approximate expenditure in the preceding year : —
TITLE.
ESTIMATES 1912-13.
General Administration Education .... Hospitals and Charitable
Institutions . Roads and Local Works
Union
Subsidy in
1912-13.
Revotes and
Savings from
1911-12
Estimated Total Expen- diture 1912-13,
£
21,100
177,700
34,600 297,600
£ 3,452
76,192
ESTIMATES 1911-12.
£
21,100
181,152
34,600 373,792
19,852 162,339
31,086 264,389
The following Services are rendered free by Union Govern n.ent Departments :—
E.stimate of Departmental Receipts of the Province.
Public Health . Posts, Telegraphs, and
Telephones . Printing and Stationery . Forestry .... Prisons' Department . Public Worlds Department
Total
1912-13
1911-12
£ 125
£ 30
1,360
2,800
25
2,000
2, .^00
25
3,200 6,000
2.400 3,500
13,510
10,755
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Education Receipts Hosjiital Fees . . | Game and Fish Preser- j vation (Permits and i Miscellaneous Receipts) Superannuation Rents, Fees, and Sales of Government Property
Total
£
19,850
4,100
650 1,420
1,000
1911-12
27,020
£
19,967
3,900
§00 1,648
995
27,010
Industry —Up to the end of 1911, 8,311,000 acres of land had been alien- ated, 2,203,000 acres conditionally alienated, and 6,999,000 acres remained unalienated. These figures exclude 4,495,000 acres granted and leased up to the end of 1911 in Zululand and the Northern Territories. On the Coast and in Zululand there are vast plantations of sugar and tea, while cereals ot all kinds (especially maize), fruits, vegetables, the accacia mohsstma, the bark of which is so much used for tanning purposes, and other crops grow prolifically. The production of maize in 1909 was 5,093,460 bushels ; and of
